Rank | Team | Reason |
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1 | Kentucky | UK over Louisville keeps UK #1. Unless an ACC team(UVA, Duke, Louisville) can destroy the rest of its conference, UK will stay #1. |
2 | Duke | Duke hasn't played this week, so I'm not inclined to move their place |
3 | Virginia | Hasn't done anything to move them down or up, look at Arizona and Louisville. |
4 | Wisconsin | A great team that has been playing consistently well. Best in the Big 10. |
5 | Louisville | Kentucky vs. Louisville: Louisville's underwhelming offense didn't score on the few open shots UK allowed, and played a dirty game. |
6 | Gonzaga | A win over a quality BYU team bumps them up over Villanova. |
7 | Villanova | Did a good job this week but Gonzaga did an even better job. |
8 | Iowa State | If you thought the ACC was tough this year, you better look at B12 too. Currently in contention along with several other teams for the title |
9 | Utah | Pac 12 is looking better and better, and it seems like the title could go to Utah. |
10 | Maryland | Man oh man, Maryland is just great, and that loss to Virginia is looking less and less bad as Virginia is making its power known. |
11 | Arizona | Arizona. UNLV is doing well, but 'zona has already had some trouble winning against lesser teams. |
12 | North Carolina | UNC just keeps getting better, and Justin Jackson is looking clutch |
13 | Ohio State | |
14 | Notre Dame | That offensive power though....scary scary. |
15 | Texas | Texas is still playing a good defense, just like Arizona. But like Arizona, their pretty good opponent had an especially great night. |
16 | St. John's | |
17 | Wichita State | Wichita State has been having close calls and finally lost to a pretty good GW team. Still though, the team will rebound from this. |
18 | Oklahoma | |
19 | West Virginia | |
20 | Kansas | Kansas needs to focus and get its game together after a drubbing by Temple. If it can do that, it will again be a contender. |
21 | Washington | ^Replace Kansas with Washington and Temple with Stony Brook. |
22 | Baylor | |
23 | Northern Iowa | |
24 | San Diego State | Survived an OT with New Mexico State but didn't convince me to go higher or lower. Georgetown and co. are nipping on its heels. |
25 | Georgetown | A win over a quality team in Indiana in an exciting game. Georgetown has been close to Top 25 for a while, and this did it. Next: TCU, VCU |